During the last 10-plus years, I have lost count of the number of dollars I have received due to class-action lawsuits, won in large part because the board was asleep at the switch and allowed mismanagement or fraud to go on.

Hitting hard at the Prime Minister, she said: "The Harper government was asleep at the switch, allowing the legislation infringing on women's rights - even legalizing marital rape - to pass through the Afghan parliament, without comment, not even noticing until it was too late.

We have been asleep at the switch -- not just some regulatory agencies but some of the congressional committees," Obama said at a press conference in Chicago, blaming "a White House that started with the premise that deregulation was always good.

Distancing herself and McCain from the past eight years of the Republican-led administration under President Bush, she continued, "Washington has been asleep at the switch and ineffective, and management on Wall Street has not run these institutions responsibly.

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